Islam in Europe: Diversity, Identity and Influence

by Edited by Aziz Al-Azmeh , Effie Fokas

• ISBN13: 9780521860116
• ISBN10: 0521860113
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-07
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Events over recent years have increased the global interest in Islam. This volume seeks to combat generalisations about the Muslim presence in Europe by illuminating its diversity across Europe and offering a more realistic, highly differentiated picture. It contends with the monist concept of identity that suggests Islam is the shared and main definition of Muslims living in Europe. The contributors also explore the influence of the European Union on the Muslim communities within its borders, and examine how the EU is in turn affected by the Muslim presence in Europe. This book comes at a critical moment in the evolution of the place of Islam within Europe and will appeal to scholars, students and practitioners in the fields of European studies, politics and policies of the European Union, sociology, sociology of religion, and international relations. It also addresses the wider framework of uncertainties and unease about religion in Europe.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. vii
List of contributors	p. viii
List of abbreviations	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Christians and Muslims: memory, amity and enmities	p. 16
The question of Euro-Islam: restriction or opportunity?	p. 34
Muslim identities in Europe: the snare of exceptionalism	p. 49
From exile to diaspora: the development of transnational Islam in Europe	p. 68
Bosnian Islam as 'European Islam': limits and shifts of a concept	p. 96
Islam in the European Commission's system of regulation of religion	p. 125
Development, discrimination and reverse discrimination: effects of EU integration and regional change on the Muslims of Southeast Europe	p. 149
Breaching the infernal cycle? Turkey, the European Union and religion	p. 183
Afterword	p. 208
Index	p. 216
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